Sunday, May 8, 2011

I found myself thinking sociologically when I was at my cousin's house. This day we went ding dong ditching around his neighborhood in Chicago.  Although it was really fun I bet those who were a victim of this weren't so happy. We took turns at ringing or knocking at houses, and even all the doorbells for an apartment building. Our parents thought we were outside playing kick ball, which we did for a while but then decided to do this. Kids of several different ages were involved, there were kids with nine years of age to 18 years of age.
If any parents, would have found out what we were doing they would have gotten upset, and tried to use the shaming theory on us by trying to make us feel guilty and never want to do it again. To them it would of been a deviant action, because its rude, and disrupts others. In the other hand, to us its not deviant because its a common way to have fun among our age group. Its not wrong to us also because no one is getting hurt, we are just simply having fun, plus there is not a law saying we can't do it. The differential association theory would be implied because the young ones would learn from us, even though its not to good.                 

1 comment:

  1. Good job applying deviance here....although I'm not too happy about the ding dong ditching :)

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